Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OT: banned insecticides

Posted by Tim(nj) on July 15, 2004 at 14:45:02 from (209.50.154.166):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OT: banned insecticides posted by Steve(OR) on July 15, 2004 at 11:05:10:

Perhaps you're right about the RoundUp. I should have used another comparison. People do use too much fertilizer and too many broadleaf weed controls on their lawns. A study done here on the Neshanic River says that nitrate and 2,4D residual in the river are actually 200% higher in 2000 than in 1980. Farmland along the river decreased by 40% during that time in favor of big, high-end housing. Nitrate pollution was blamed on the cows in 1980. Cow population decreased 90% in 20 years, so it isn't coming from manure.
The way they develop housing here, impervious ground cover increases greatly, which, along with drainage "improvements" that move water more quickly from these properties into a stream, allows a larger percentage of their applied product to find its way into the waterways than when the land was farmed. So even though they are applying less, just as much finds its way away from its application point.
You may not see this in Oregon because you have population centers with space in between. Our whole state is covered with people.

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